Total outstanding debt of the U.S. government reported daily. Includes a breakout of intragovernmental holdings (federal debt held by U.S. government) and debt held by the public (federal debt held by entities outside the U.S. government).

The Debt to the Penny dataset provides information about the total outstanding public debt and is reported each day. Debt to the Penny is made up of intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public, including securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. Total public debt outstanding is composed of Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), Floating Rate Notes (FRNs), and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) securities, as well as Domestic Series, Foreign Series, State and Local Government Series (SLGS), U.S. Savings Securities, and Government Account Series (GAS) securities. Debt to the Penny is updated at 3:00 PM EST each business day with data from the previous business day.

description: Total public debt to the penny reported daily; abstract: Total public debt to the penny reported daily

Summarizes the U.S. government's total outstanding debt at the end of each fiscal year from 1789 to the current year.

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Daily activity of federal debt. The data is broken out by Held by the Public and Intragovernmental Debt Holdings amounts.

The Daily Activity Table provides daily changes in federal debt. The data notes whether the debt is debt held by the public or intragovernmental holdings. These two categories are further broken down into borrowing, repayment, interest, unamortized, and amortization amounts.

The Daily Activity Table provides daily federal debt balances. The data is broken out by debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings amounts. These amounts include principal, accrued interest payable, and net unamortized. These amounts are in millions.